Choosing Forgiveness: Your Journey to Freedom

The prayer that Jesus gave his disciples as a model, commonly called "The Lord's Prayer", asks that God forgive us as we forgive others. That's a really scary thought! God forgiving us as we do? Nancy Leigh DeMoss explains how forgiving like God is a choice that frees us from the burdens of bitterness, anger, and isolation. If you struggle with long-held hurts, God's truth and Nancy's wisdom offer help and healing for you.

Adorned: Living out the Beauty of the Gospel Together

Known for her wisdom, warmth, and knowledge of scripture, Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth has encouraged millions through her books, radio programs, and conferences. Now she's back with a legacy work on Titus 2 and its powerful vision for women.

Gratitude Works!: A 21-Day Program for Creating Emotional Prosperity

Recent dramatic advances in our understanding of gratitude have changed the question from "does gratitude work?" to "how do we get more of it?" This book explores evidence-based practices in a compelling and accessible way and provides a step-by-step guide to cultivating gratitude in our lives. Living Gratitude also shows how religious, philosophical, and spiritual traditions validate the greatest insights of science about gratitude.

None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us (and Why That's a Good Thing)

Human beings were created to reflect the image of God - but only to a limited extent. Although we share important attributes with God (love, mercy, compassion, etc.), there are other qualities that only God possesses, such as unlimited power, knowledge, and authority. At the root of all sin is our rebellious desire to be like God in such ways - a desire that first manifested itself in the Garden of Eden. In None Like Him, Jen Wilkin leads us on a journey to discover 10 ways God is different from us - and why that's a good thing.

The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life

On New Year's Eve, journalist and former Parade editor-in-chief Janice Kaplan makes a promise to be grateful and look on the bright side of whatever happens. She realizes that how she feels over the next months will have less to do with the events that occur than her own attitude and perspective. Getting advice at every turn from psychologists, academics, doctors, and philosophers, she brings listeners on a smart and witty journey to discover the value of appreciating what you have.

Surrender: The Heart God Controls

Struggling with stubborn habits? Secret sin? Spiritual strongholds? The key isn't how committed you are to the battle - it's how surrendered you are to God. This truth can be your breakthrough, the first step toward a deeper, richer, victorious spiritual life. With her compelling mix of profound biblical insight and personal example, Nancy Leigh DeMoss reveals why it is only when you surrender your heart, your soul, your body, your ambitions - everything - to God that he can fully help you triumph.

FLIP the Gratitude Switch: A Simple Formula to Change the Trajectory of Your Life

This powerful book is the ultimate guide on how to create real happiness in your life through finding, cultivating, and activating gratitude no matter what your life circumstances may be...and to do it in a way that will change the trajectory of your life. This book will show you how to make gratitude something you do, not just something you feel, and how to change your life quickly, simply, and permanently as a result. All it takes is one FLIP - that single moment when you decide that you want to stop thinking about the life you should be living and actually start living it!

The Kindness Challenge: Thirty Days to Improve Any Relationship

Shaunti Feldhahn helps listeners transform any relationship by making three small changes! In a new approach for Shaunti, this book is a cross between a major research study, a self-help book, and a daily step-by-step habit-building plan. It shows listeners how to apply the surprising relationship insights revealed in her earlier million-copy best sellers, why certain actions matter so much, and a specific 30-day plan on what to do to build a very simple habit that will change any relationship for the better.

Lies Young Women Believe: And the Truth That Sets Them Free

Lies Young Women Believe will give girls aged 13-19 the tools they need to identify where their lives and beliefs are off course - the result of buying into Satan's lies about God, guys, media, and more. Nancy Leigh DeMoss teams up youth author Dannah Gresh to speak to teenage girls about the top lies they believe. They then equip young women in the skills and the truths of Scripture that overcome those lies.

Living Life as a Thank You: The Transformative Power of Daily Gratitude

Living as if each day is a thank you can help transform fear into courage, anger into forgiveness, and isolation into belonging. Authors Nina Lesowitz and Mary Beth Sammons present a simple yet comprehensive approach for incorporating gratitude into one's life and reaping its many benefits. The book is divided into ten chapters, including "Ways to Stay Thankful in Difficult Times,” "Gratitude as a Spiritual Practice,” and "Putting Gratitude into Action."

Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely

The enemy wants us to feel rejected, left out, lonely, and less than. When we allow him to speak lies through our rejection, he pickpockets our purpose. Cripples our courage. Dismantles our dreams. And blinds us to the beauty of Christ's powerful love. In Uninvited, Lysa shares her own deeply personal experiences with rejection - from the incredibly painful childhood abandonment by her father to the perceived judgment of the perfectly toned woman one elliptical over.

Gratitude: Discover How to Gain Emotional Freedom Through the Power of Gratitude

Do you feel blind to the abundance all around you? Are you tired of feeling unhappy? Whether you want to, (1) live better and feel happier, (2) eliminate negative feelings, or (3) discover a life that is worth living, then this is the audiobook for you!

The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness: The Path to True Christian Joy

In an age where pleasing people, puffing up your ego and building your résumé are seen as the methods to 'make it', the Apostle Paul calls us to find true rest in blessed self-forgetfulness. This audiobook shows that gospel-humility means we can stop connecting every experience, every conversation with ourselves and can thus be free from self-condemnation. A truly gospel-humble person is not a self-hating person or a self-loving person, but a self-forgetful person. This freedom can be yours.

Brokenness: The Heart God Revives

Every great movement of God is preceded by a season of humility and repentance. It is a time of tearing down walls, of getting honest with God and others about your true spiritual condition. It may be hard. It may hurt. But in the end, God will use your brokenness to restore your 'first love' for Jesus, rekindle your spiritual fire, reconcile your relationships, and repair your life. A richer, deeper, more God-filled life is waiting for you.

You have an enemy...and he's dead set on destroying all you hold dear and keeping you from experiencing abundant life in Christ. What's more, his approach to disrupting your life and discrediting your faith isn't general or generic, not a one-size-fits-all. It's specific. Personalized. Targeted. So this audiobook is your chance to strike back. With prayer. With a weapon that really works.

Sit Walk Stand: The Process of Christian Maturity

An inspiring look at Ephesians, opening our eyes to the process of Christian living and maturity in three words: Sit: our position in Christ. Walk: our life in the world. Stand: our attitude toward the Enemy. Study guide included. An invaluable tool for the growing disciple.

Awe: Why It Matters for Everything We Think, Say, and Do

Helping us kindle an ever-growing passion for God's glory, this book by popular author Paul David Tripp reminds us of the importance of awe for shaping everything we choose, decide, think, desire, say, and do. Reflecting on how awe for God impacts our approach to spiritual warfare, ministry, material things, and more, Tripp will energize your love for God by opening your eyes afresh to the glory of his love, grace, and power.

Publisher's Summary

Gratitude is a choice. If we fail to chose it, by default we choose ingratitude. And once allowed into the heart, ingratitude does not come by itself but with a lot of other seedy companions that only succeed in stealing joy. To not choose gratitude - daily and deliberately - is more costly than we usually realize.

And when we do choose a lifestyle of heartfelt, humble gratitude, we are mindful of the benefits received from our gracious Savior and those He has placed around us. By intentionally thanking God and others, bitterness and entitlement are replaced with joy and the humble realization of just how undeserving we really are.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book even though it thoroughly convicted me about my limited gratitude for all that God has done for me. I've always looked for the good in any situation, even those that are devastating because God says "all things work for good for them that love The Lord". I find myself usually thanking him for things like keeping power in a storm, good medical reports, and other daily things. BUT, do I often find myself thanking God for ALL the things in my life? More importantly, do I often find myself thanking God FOR MY LIFe---for all that he has done to purchase my eternal life through his love and sacrifice for me?

There is a pretty thorough, and interesting description of everything that God has done for us, with practical and personal examples from the author's life and the lives of others. The book ends with a thirty day CHALLANGE, including Bible references to read, questions, and journaling suggestions. Wonderful read for everyone. Showing too, that a life of gratitude is a healthier, more joyful life than a life of whining, complaining, or depression.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss does a masterful job of communicating the many facets of the jewel we call gratitude. Life changing. We grossly underestimate the power, reaches and influence of our hearts attitude, gratitude being a powerful one. We either extend and attract positive or negative energetic vibrations that are very real and powerful. The spirit of gratitude is one that is there for the taking; there for the choosing. It enriches both the giver and the receiver.

It's SO easy to get caught up in our negative society. Talking with friends really is just griping or gossiping anymore. News is gossip or depressing. Everything around us just shows us the horrible, depressing world we live in.

But this book is a great reminder that, no, it ISN'T all that bad, and we have much for which we should be grateful.

What did you like best about this story?

It's like a friendly, loving, spiritual slap in the face. HEY! Snap out of your crank mood, you! Look at everything you should be grateful for!

and then you're like... "oh yeah!"

I like that.

What does Christian Taylor bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The reader has a little Southern twang (not that that's bad), and she does a great job of reading the book in a natural way, almost as if the author was in your kitchen, telling you what she's written over a cup of tea.

What did you learn from Choosing Gratitude that you would use in your daily life?

I look forward to using the accompanying PDF to practice the 30-day gratitude challenge.